dawn.vogel | September 30, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Marginalized Genders in Fiction” was a panel where the panelists talked about the history of trans and non-binary […]
dawn.vogel | September 27, 2024
October is almost upon us, which means it’s time for the October 2024 writing prompts! This month’s prompts are all taken from drawing challenges. As always, I devote column 1 to Mab’s Drawlloween Club, my favorite of the bunch. (She also has a printable calendar version if you prefer to have that to scribble notes […]
dawn.vogel | September 26, 2024
My story “Hearts in Motion” was based on a contest prompt. On the surface, it doesn’t seem entirely speculative, though it does envision a post-climate change world in which two factions are at odds with each other. And while that might seem all too plausible, I truly hope that the world will not go in […]
dawn.vogel | September 25, 2024
Microcosm Publishing and Elly Blue’s upcoming installment in the Bikes in Space series is This is Your Bike on Plants, and it’s on Kickstarter right now! If you’ve never read one of the Bikes in Space series, you can read my review of one of the earlier volumes, Bikes Not Rockets, here! I’ve also had a […]
dawn.vogel | September 24, 2024
It’s the time of the year when authors, aspiring and otherwise, think about writing a novel. Or, at least, it has been in the past. However, the usual impetus for this, NaNoWriMo, has exploded in a most spectacular fashion (see this blog post by my friend Raven Oak for details of the FIRST part of […]
dawn.vogel | September 23, 2024
Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! Author Brieanna Wilkoff gave a presentation titled “Creating Compelling Characters” that broke down a system for how she […]
dawn.vogel | September 20, 2024
It’s time for some more prompts from the DefCon One Instagram account! Write a piece about a fabulous catch. Write a piece about what the bloodthirsty chew on. Write a piece about what is slumbering. Follow the DefCon One Instagram account for writing prompts every other Friday, or check them out when I post them here!
dawn.vogel | September 19, 2024
I haven’t posted a summary of my historical fiction for a while, in part because there hasn’t been much to post. But last October, I released Unfixed Timelines 3 and Unfixed Timelines Omnibus. The former includes seven stories and one poem, several of which were previously published, along with essays about the history I altered […]
dawn.vogel | September 18, 2024
One of my favorite things about most of the video games Jeremy plays is the characters. Like, I don’t really care that much about the plot or the gameplay, but I inevitably have a character (or three) who I really glom onto. In the case of Saints Row the Third and beyond, that character is Kinzie […]
dawn.vogel | September 17, 2024
When I set out to write Promise Me Nothing, I worked long and hard on finding the right location for it. I knew I wanted to have the setting in the Pacific Northwest for a somewhat mild climate. However, I also needed to find a setting that would be far from any mass population centers, because […]
